You're not alone Chas. In a book I have, "Ultimate Garages," one owner painted his Ferrari yellow because he preferred the colour to the original red!

And my 280E was yellow too, but my own preference is black.

Different strokes...

Ken Silver
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~1993 SL500, glistening triple black, xenons: http://www.kensilver.com/SL
~1991 Daimler, shiny grey / grey leather, best in country!
~1992 Miata MX5, sparkling BRG / tan leather, wife's (soon to be replaced with a silver SLK)
~ex 350SL, 230E, 280E (and a lot of other makes not nearly as nice)